xAI is an AI company founded by Elon Musk in 2023 that develops the Grok series of large language models, integrated with the X (formerly Twitter) platform.
Grokipedia, the AI-generated encyclopedia launched by xAI on October 27, 2025, has not updated any articles since April 24, 2026, and has stopped processing human-suggested edits, leaving all submissi…
XAI's Grok chatbot generated gibberish responses for some Grok Lite users on August 19, with one user receiving a nonsensical reply about cheese and planets when requesting a PDF. The official Grok ac…
Mistral and HUMAIN, the AI company owned by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, announced a strategic collaboration valued in the hundreds of millions of euros to build 'sovereign AI infrastructure…
Gallup polling shows 71% of Americans opposed an AI data center near them by March 2026, up from 47% in late 2025, making data centers less popular than nuclear power plants, which 53% oppose. At leas…
The United States has overtaken China as the world's leading builder of new gas-fired power plants, with under-construction capacity jumping 76% in the first half of 2026 to twice China's level, accor…
Experts warn of a looming AI 'debt bomb' as datacenter builders like Meta, Oracle, xAI, and CoreWeave shift over $120bn of spending off balance sheets, but accounting expert Robert Willens argues this…
Elon Musk told Cursor staff in an August all-hands meeting that his AI company xAI had 'fallen behind' and needed to catch up with leaders OpenAI and Anthropic, according to a report from The Informat…
SpaceX's Starlink is using Grok AI to handle over 15,000 customer support and sales calls daily, fulfilling more than 3,000 orders per week via voice and chat, according to a tweet from SpaceXAI. The …
XAI released Grok Build 1.0 on August 7, an open-source (Apache 2.0) terminal AI coding agent that spawns up to eight parallel subagents in isolated git worktrees, with Arena Mode where agents race an…
A census of eight API vendors and four coding-CLI surfaces found that the dominant documented behavior when hitting an AI spend cap is a hard stop via HTTP 429, 402, or 400, not a graceful degrade, ac…
XAI released Grok 4.6, a proprietary frontier model built with Cursor, featuring 500K context, a knowledge cutoff of Feb 2026, and text and image input with text output. Priced at $2 per 1M input toke…
SpaceX's Starlink has deployed xAI's Grok Voice to handle more than 15,000 customer support calls daily, resolving 70% of issues autonomously and converting 20% of inbound inquiries into orders, accor…
XAI's Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0, launched on July 29, 2026, ranked first on the Artificial Analysis Speech-to-Speech Index with a score of 79.0%, including 97% for speech reasoning and 94.7% task succ…
Most AI investment is going into infrastructure—servers, storage, security, and operations—rather than the models themselves, according to Tayo Lusi, founder of The Apex Institute cloud and AI infrast…
A developer at Dremio has created the Open Agent Profile (OAP) specification, a file format for defining persistent, named AI agents that can move between different tools. The shift from session-based…
In a solo episode of the How I AI podcast, Claire tested Grok Bot, Cursor Origin, and Grok 4.6, finding that Grok Bot's multi-account connectors solve a problem other agent platforms ignore, while Cur…
The U.S. Justice Department has spent nearly a year investigating venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz under Section 8 of the Clayton Act, a 1914 law prohibiting interlocking directorates, over bo…
XAI released Grok 4.6, its latest frontier model, and Grok Build, a terminal coding agent, which together enable developers to build end-to-end data science projects with just four prompts. In a demon…
Turkey's internet regulators have blocked at least a dozen Grok threads on xAI's platform, citing classified military details and controversial political claims, with the BTK flagging over 200 Grok in…
OpenAI released GPT-5.6 in three tiers (Sol, Terra, Luna) after a government review, with the fastest tier reportedly hitting 750 tokens/sec on Cerebras hardware and a new 'Ultra' mode for maximum rea…